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Chapter 3
The Safe Food Handler
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How handlers can contaminate food? | When they have a foodborne illness, when they cough or sneeze, they come into contact with sick people. |
| What are some actions that can contaminate food? | Scratching the scalp, cleaning or touching the nose, rubbing the ears, touching infected ears, or running the hands through the hair. |
| When should handlers wash their hands? | After using the bathroom, before and after using meat, poultry or seafood, touching hair, face or body, sneezing, coughing or using a tissue, eating, drinking, smoking or chewing gum, and handling chemicals that would manipulate food safety. |
| How should food handlers have their hands? | They must have them clean. for example: do not use nail polish, do not use false ones. They should keep them short and clean. |
| What to do if a food handler has a hand injury? | must cover the wound to prevent pathogens from contaminating the food. The wound must be covered with an impermeable cover. |
| How does a food handler use gloves? | They must be used when handling ready-to-eat food, they must never be used more than once, they must not be used when washing dishes, they must fit correctly. |
| When should a food handler change gloves? | They should be replaced as soon as they get dirty or break, after an interruption, after handling meat, seafood or poultry, before starting a different task. |
| Food handlers should avoid contact with bare hands because? | Because it is a risk for consumers to have severe illnesses, because some jurisdictions require it and because it is in the policies on the health of employees. |
| What is the clothing of a worker? | They should wear a clean hat or other hair restraint, no jewelry in the prep area, and wear clean clothing every day. |
| Food handlers should not do? | Eating, drinking, smoking, or chewing gum when they are preparing or serving food, when they are in prep areas or in areas to clean utensils and equipment. |
| What to do if a food handler is sick? | You must ask him to leave work, exclude the handler from areas where food is used and allow him to return with a doctor's order. |
| Food handlers should be tasked with? | Always keep up to date if they are in the correct cleaning process, wear gloves, wash hands, do not touch the body or any part that is not clean. |
| What is a food handler? | A food handler is those who provide hygiene to food in the preparation, transformation, packaging, storage, distribution and sale stage. |
| What harm does a food handler cause if he does not follow the rules? | This can lead to the risk of contaminating food and causing serious illnesses to consumers since bacteria and many bad things can be carried in the food. |
| How should a food handler wash their hands? | Wash with cold or warm water, rub hands properly from finger to wrist, rinse hands thoroughly, dry properly and do not touch dirty items with clean hands. |